Posts from — May 2010

Well hello there everyone!  I hope you had a great holiday weekend (Memorial Day here in the good ole US of A)!

We’ll get back to the bacon goodness tomorrow…right now, I just have to share this. 

This just killed me. Did you see the giant safety pin?  Brilliant!

Talk to ya’ll tomorrow.

FoTDB* Justin has been on a roll this week.  He’s practically served as my personal bacon news guru through his finds this week!  He gets ALL the credit for this picking this one out…

Available over at Spiffy Studios – $23.00 includes s/h.

(* Friend of “The Daily Bacon“)

I was catching up on my nerd sites tonight when I came across this…

It may not be pretty now…but in a few weeks it’s going to become a oatmeal, coffee, bacon stout! 

Sean Fallon at Nerd Approved is an avid home brewer with a dream.  That dream, to take three of his favorite things – bacon, coffee and beer – and put them all together in one tasty beverage.

He is chronicalling his brewing experience over the next few weeks over on the site!  TDB wishes you well Sean (and any chance I could get you to send a bottle this way???)

What a week this has been for bacon inginuity.  Colored bacon yesterday, homemade bacon beer today…what glorious idea will come next???

via Nerd Approved

I’m gonna let the pictures do the talkin’ here…

Yes, that is a rainbow of bacon!  Why?  Because someone (a certain Neil Caldwell) dared to dream.

I don’t know how I feel about this and have reservations about eating anything that blue or purple or green but I will give the man some credit, he’s gone and done something pretty unique.

Thanks to FoTDB Justin for the heads up on this story found on Bacon Today.

I had this ready to post yesterday (on it’s regular feature day) but given my work schedule and complete lack of sleep the night before (thanks to a teething Lil’ Baird) I completely forgot to hit publish. Soooo anyway…here’s your day late “Better with Bacon” feature for the week.

Yeah, that’s right, bacon and peanut butter in a convienent cookie form!  Get the nice and easy recipe after the jump… [Read more →]

After a long day on the road for work, I popped into Famous Dave’s on the way home…

Notice that’s not a question on the back of that shirt

As a bonus…here’s the chopped pork “salad” I had tonight…

now THOSE are BACON BITS!!

Have a great weekend everyone.

Man o’ man, these last few weeks have completely killed my “scheduled” feature posts.  To make up for not having a “Better with Bacon” segment for a while, here are THREE recipes that I pulled from the “Detroit News” bacon article from last week…Chocolate Bacon, Hot Bacon-Blue Cheese Dressing and Bacon Waffles (the latter I plan on making for my family this weekend).

Happy Cooking! [Read more →]

Started a brand new job yesterday!!  YEAH!!! 

So it was a day full of firsts…how do I drive to the office, where do I park, setting up voicemail, email, blah, blah, blah…

One of the biggest dilemmas is always where to go for lunch. Fortunately there are a few options in my new building. One is a deli just outside the main bank of elevators.  Pretty convenient I thought so in I went. 

They had a really strong sandwich board and it took me a while to decide but I finally ordered the #8 – turkey, bacon and thousand island on rye.

The sandwich is made in no time, wrapped with a pickle, didn’t cost an arm and a leg… I’m feeling pretty good about my choice.

That is until I get back upstairs and unwrap my sandwich.

WTF!!!  This is a deli and THAT is the bacon you are going to put on my sandwich???

Precooked, thin sliced crud!

I am sorry deli that I won’t name…you had one shot to win and you FAILED miserably.

Starting today I’m launching a new “series” on the blog simply called “Yummy!” featuring the tasty bacon foods that I like!

Just up the road from my humble abode is a little neighborhood bar called Brady’s.  It’s my de facto meeting place for a beer and burger lunch and the menu item of choice is typically this lovely thing…

It’s the Famous Burger, Charlie Brown style…and it is delicious!

Nothing special, just a basic half pound burger.  Swiss cheese and bacon make it “Charlie Brown”.  That’s it and that is why I like it so much.  Just a good tasting, simple burger.

The two strips may not seem like enough, but break them in half and you get bacon in every bite.

So if you are in town over a weekend and wanna grab lunch and a few cold ones in the middle of the day…just give me a call and I’ll meet you up there.

A SHOUT OUT to FoTDB Bobby for letting me know about this article in the Detroit News yesterday:

It really is a nice article and great to see a food writer take a serious look at the phenomenon that has become bacon.

It also helps that we have an unabashed bacon lover Ari Weinzweig, co-owner of Zingerman’s Deli and Zingerman’s, just down the road in Ann Arbor.

Here are some highlights:

Do you suppose if bacon were called anything but bacon that we’d love it as much? Say the word to anyone other than a vegetarian and watch the response: We adore it. Quite simply, bacon is meat candy….

Chefs and home cooks are going whole hog, folding bacon into muffin and waffle batters, wrapping it around seafood and chicken livers, saving the fat to enhance stir fries and to make chocolate gravy (a Southern favorite), and dipping the crispy cooked strips in melted chocolate to really gild the swine…

Bacon also has had its share of taking it on the chin because of its high sodium, fat and calorie content. But compare that to a hot dog or hamburger or even a glazed doughnut, and bacon looks like health food.

“I look at bacon as fine wine,” Weinzweig says. “You need to have more than just one in your repertoire.”

You can read the whole article “Surrender to artisanal bacon — the latest gourmet hit” over at detnews.com.

Also – if you are in the metro Detroit area and love bacon, you do not want to miss Zingerman’s Camp Bacon!

About Camp Bacon
What : Led by Ari Weinzweig, highlights include bacon tasting, curing demonstration from three leading artisan bacon curers, cooking demo, breakfast and lunch from Zingerman’s Deli and a free signed copy of “Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon.”

When: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 19; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. June 20. Following the June 19 event, the Zingerman’s businesses on Plaza Drive will open their doors until 5 p.m. for a free bacon party with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit the Washtenaw County 4H. There will be Bacon Apple Doughnut making at the Bakehouse and Maple-Bacon Lattes from Zingerman’s Coffee Co. Zingerman’s Creamery will be stocking a full line of great bacons for sale that day as well.

Where: Zingerman’s Bakehouse, Creamery and Coffee, 3711 Plaza Drive, Ann Arbor, 48108

Cost : $150 per person

More information or to make reservations : www.zingermanscampbacon.com. Or contact Pete Sickman-Garner, pgarner@zingermans.com or (734) 904.0644.

via The Detroit News: